Cigar-cutter.



No. 876,156. PATENTED JAN. 7,1908. W. E. EDWARDS.

GIGAR GUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24,1907.

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WILLIAM E. EDWARDS, OE IItVINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed August Z4, 1907- Serial 110.389.942.

The objects of the invention are to provide l for smokers a cigar cutter of simple and compact construction to enable the device to also serve as a key ring, without the keys carried thereon interfering in any way with its functions as a'cigar critter; to provide an attractive and durable article which can be carried either in the pocket or upon a chain, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different iigures, Figure I is a side view of my improved device, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same taken online a5, Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow 3 Figs. 3 and 4 are edge views of the device from diametrically opposite view-points at the upper and lower ends, respectively, of the line fc in Fig. 1 Fig. 5 is a side view of the device with one of the side plates of the body portion removed; l ig. (3 is a detail view of a certain catch from its inner side Fig. 7 is a side view of the frame or skeleton separate from the other parts, and Eig. 8 is a similar view of the knife or cutting blade.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the frame or .skeleton of my improved device, formed out of a piece of sheet metal having a substantially circular outer outline, as shown, and being apertured as at 2 near its edge and having at a point diametrically opposite a deep recess 3. Between the said aperture 2 and recess 3 is a diametrically transverse portion 4 of the skeleton which separates said openings and connects the two opposite edge portions of the skeleton. The said. recess 3 has near its mouth, opposite side walls 5, 5, which are parallel to eachother and rovide slideways for a cutting blade hereinafter described. Further in. from said slideways 5, 5, the whole central part of the body portion is cut away, to the cross-portion 4t, and laterally back from the inner ends of said slideways extend spring recesses 6, with slits 7, 7, at the inner ends adapted to receive the extremities of leaf springs S, which project at their other ends from said spring chambers to engage the sliding knife or blade El hereinafter described. 'lo the opposite sides of the said skeleton or body portion 1, are secured as by rivets 1.0, plates 11 1 1 which are exactly alike. and form with said body portion a chamber. The end edges 12, 12 of said plates coincide with the outer edges of the body portion 1 while of the two side edges of each plate, one, as 13 coincides with the inner outline of the aperture 2 in the body portion, while the other 14, curves deeply inward between the slideways 5, 5, of the Abody portion. The said side-plates 11, 1.1, are furthermore provided at the center of the circular outline of the entire device, with registering openings 1.5, 15, adapted to receive the tip of a cigar. Between the said side-plates 1,1, 11., with its lateral edges 16, 16, engaging the slideways 5, 5, is arranged the knife or blade 9' above referred to. Normally, the inner end edge 17 of said knife, which is sharpened in any suitable manner, lies clear of the openings 15, 1.5, as shown, and the outer end edge 18 '.ills the mouth of the recess 3 in the body portion, conforming to the circular outline of said. body portion. hugs 1E), 1), at the outer ends of the slideways 5, 5, limit outward movement of said sliding knife 9, and the springs S, S, engage at their free ends the opposite side edges of the blade, as at 20, 20, to normally force the same outward against said limiting steps 1S), 1). Obviously, inward pressure of the thumb upon the outer end edge 1S of the knife will lforce the inner sharp-edged end 17 across the openings 15, 15, to shear olf the tip of a cigar. '.Prefeialuly, the inner extremities of the slideways 5, 5, are adapted to engage the springs S, S, to prevent displacement of the same if the knife 9 be removed.

At the outer edge of the aperture '2, of the body portion, the narrow inclosing strip of the same is divided at or about its middle, so as to form curved' arms 2.1, 21, which are resilient to a considerable degree, whereby they can be deilected suiliciently to pass a key or the like therebetween and onto the said arms as onto a key-ring. For securing said ends together, there is pivoted to one of them, as at 2.2, a clasp 29 slotted at its opposite ends 23, 23 and at its bottom 2.4. to receive the said arms edgewise. Furthermore, the solid transverse portion Z5 of said clasp closes into the space formed by cutting away the outer adjacent corners 26, 26, of the two outer edges lies flush arms, 20 that said clasp at both its inner and with the corresponding edges of the arms. Added security is given by a protuberance 27 on the inner surface of the slitted free end of the clasp, and which springs into a corresponding seat 28 in the outer side of the extremity of the curved arm 21 overlapped thereby.

The construction thus described is very simple, comprises few pieces, and is easily and cheaply manufactured at the same time it is efficient as a cigar-cutter and will serve with great facility as a key-ring.

An eye 30, on the edge of the skeleton or ody part 1, at any suitable point, enables the device to be worn on a chain if desired.

Having thus described the invention, what claim as new is:

l. In a cigar cutter, the combination of a skeleton frame recessed from one edge and an interior slideway, parallel side plates having registering apertures, and a knife mounted in said slideway to move across said apertures.

2. In a cigar cutter, the combination of a skeleton frame recessed from o'ne edge and providing an interior slid eway and spring recesses at theopposite sides of said slideway, side plates having registering' apertures, a knife mounted in said slideway, and springs in said recesses engaging' said knife.

3. In a cigar cutter, the combination of a skeleton frame recessed from one edge and providing' an interior slideway and spring' re cesses at the opposite sides of said slideway, side plates having registering' apertures, a knife mounted in said slideway with an inner sharpened edge adapted to move across said apertures and an outer exposed edge, and springs in said recesses engaging said knife and normally holding the same clear of said apertures.

4. In a cigar cutter, the combination of a skeleton frame recessed lfrom one edge and providing an interior slideway and spring' recesses at the opposite sides of said slideway having slits at their inner ends, side plates having' registering peripheral recesses and having and leaf springs inserted at one end in said slits and at their other ends engaging the knife normally holding' said apertures.

the latter clear of the 5. In a cigar cutter, the combination of a skeleton frame recessed from one edge providing opposite parallel slideways and spring recesses extending around the inner ends of and behind said slideways, a knife mounted in said slideways, stops at the outer ends of said slideways, leaf springs projecting from said spring recesses into engagement with said knife and adapted to engage the said inner ends of the slideways, and stops at the outer' ends of said slideways.

6. rI`he combination of the skeleton frame a transverse portion and opposite pairs of arms converging toward each other from the opposite ends of said transverse portion, the arms of one pair being resilient and closely approaching at their ends at the arms of the other pair providing a slideway between themselves, parallel side plates on said last-mentioned arms having' registering apertures, and a knife mounted in said slideway to move across said apertures.

7. The combination of the skeleton frame having a transverse portion and opposite pairs of arms converging toward each other from the opposite ends of said transverse portion, the arms of one pair being resilient and closely approaching at their ends and the arms of the other pair providing a slidewa between themselves, means for detachably connecting said ends of the first-mentioned arms, parallel side plates on said last-mentioned arms having registering apertures, and a knife mounted in said slideway to move across said apertures.

WILLIAM E. EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK GERMANN, Jr., ETHEL B. REED. 

